by Margaret Atwood · Robert Laffont · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221243114
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«Les Testaments» is the dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood, published by Robert Laffont in paperback (552 pages, in French).
Fifteen years after «La Servante écarlate», Gilead remains in power but is decaying. The lives of three women converge: a Commander's daughter raised in Gilead, a Canadian who protests against the regime, and a figure within the system who keeps secrets. Their testimonies reveal Gilead's inner workings and force them to defend their convictions.
Second installment of the series «The Handmaid’s Tale», sequel to «La Servante écarlate». Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize; original English title «The Testaments», translated from English by Michèle Albaret-Maatsch.
For readers of dystopias and followers of the «La Servante écarlate» saga who want to know Gilead's outcome.
Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Order of Canada, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for literature, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television.
